US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 27 for "Downhole filtration systems and related methods in oil and gas applications" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,948, issued on May 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Downhole filtration systems and related methods in oil and gas applications" was invented by Mario Augusto Rivas Martinez (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Daniel Thomas Scott (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole filtration system for use in a drill string includes a filter assembly configured to filter debris from a drilling fluid, a first pressure sensor located at an uphole end of the filter assembly, a second pressure sensor located at a downhole end of the filter assembly, and a control unit configured to receive and tran...